Number of days to the launch of
'Charles Williams: The Third Inkling"
Researched and written by Grevel Lindop
You can pre-order (£25). Click on the title above.
Day 90
Charles Williams wrote a series of love poems on themes from Euclidian geometry, including triangles and asymptotes!
Charles Williams wrote a series of love poems on themes from Euclidian geometry, including triangles and asymptotes!
Day 89
CW said his boss Humphrey Milford consoled him for
literary failure by 'offering me a reputation in the 21st century!'
Day 88
During World War 2 Graham Greene at the Ministry of
Information commissioned CW to write a pamphlet on to help the
war effort.
Day 87
Charles Williams
disliked Oxford, and thought it 'though nice, still a kind of of
London!'
Day 86
Christopher Lee knew Charles Williams and came to his
lectures; 60+ yrs later he would play Saruman in Lord of the Rings movies.
Day 85
Day 84
In the 1930s Charles Williams was a close friend of
the novelist and opium-addict Mary Butts, author of Ashe of Rings & Armed
With Madness.
Day 83
CWs was part of a
series called I Believe: Mary Butts was to write a companion but never did.
Day 82
In 1939, Charles Williams said that T.S.
Eliot was 'the only male love of my life since [D.H.S.] Nicholson died.'
Day 81
In autumn 1939 Charles Williams used to bring
colleague Gerry Hopkins to Inklings meetings. Hopkins has never been listed as
a minor Inkling.
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